To counter risk from adversaries like Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and proxies such as the Houthis and Hamas, we maintain the Department of Defense. The DOD includes the Joint Chiefs of Staff, ...

Greg Munroe writes, Our Senators, Daines and Sheehy know that Hegseth is comically unqualified to be Secretary of Defense and ...

Pete Hegseth narrowly secured enough votes on Friday to become the next U.S. defense secretary, a major victory for President ...

1975 - Austin is commissioned as a second lieutenant in the US Army upon graduation from West Point. Over the next 20 years, he holds a number of leadership positions and is stationed at bases in ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during a Department of Defense Commander in Chief farewell ceremony at ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin bid farewell Friday to the forces and personnel he has led through a ...

Defense Secretary Austin will bid farewell Friday following a term that included three major military crises, a global ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will bid farewell Friday to the forces and ... action — for leading troops from the front in the initial 2003 invasion of Iraq. He is one of the many ...

Trump Signs Executive Order Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Gender Mutilation Judge Temporarily Halts Trump’s Freeze on Federal Grants, Loans Senate Democrats Squash GOP-Led ICC ...

WASHINGTON - An investigation released on Jan 15 into US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin’s secret 2024 hospitalisation found that his desire for privacy drove notification failures inside the ...

First, the review examined the processes, procedures, and actions related to the transfer of functions and duties from Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III (Secretary Austin), to Deputy ...